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  • Advice
    Advice

    101: Doing performance reviews

    Susan Shalhoub Special To The Worcester Business Journal

    What if your employees gave you a performance review on the way you conduct performance reviews? Do you dread these intended-to-be regular sit-down sessions? Or are employee reviews a task that's put off, and if done, conducted quickly without thoughtful preparation? Here are three tips that can help ease your perspective.

  • FLASH POLL: Holiday bonuses anyone?

    Work parties during the holiday season are common, with bonuses maybe a little less common. But with an improving economy, are some businesses giving out a little extra money to their employees over the next several weeks? Here's what our readers said the week of Nov. 25.

  • FLASH POLL: Raises for top Mass. officials? Hmmm .......

    A state-created commission says Massachusetts' top elected officials deserve raises. How do readers feel about that? Here's what the answered the week of Dec. 3.

  • Photo Finish
    Photo Finish

    Photo Finish

    CREATIVE CONTRIBUTIONFramingham-based MutualOne Bank donated $5,000 to the Amazing Things Arts Center (ATAC) in Framingham.

  • Shop Talk
    Shop Talk

    Q&A with Tyson Nargassans, President & CEO, Saylent Technologies

    Rick Saia

    Business thrives on data. But it needs special software to help go behind the data to react to changing customer demand and stay competitive. That's where Franklin-based Saylent Technologies comes in for financial institutions, as a provider of data analytics software and services.

  • Focus on Buying and Selling a Business
    Focus on Buying and Selling a Business

    Harr Motor rolls into a new era

    Sam Bonacci

    The Harr automobile dealerships have been a part of Charles Ribakoff's life since his father bought the company in 1948. In that time he has moved up through jobs in various dealerships to management roles, and eventually he bought the business from his father 15 years ago. Now, it's his time to pass along the company.

  • Opinion
    Opinion

    Baker must continue to shine the state's spotlight on solar

    Ben Hellerstein And Mark Durrenberger Special To The Worcester Business Journal

    Two car dealerships in Westborough — Dan's Jeep and Westborough Mitsubishi — installed 441 rooftop solar panels, with anticipated savings of more than $500,000 in electricity costs over 25 years.

  • Fresh Beginnings

    Harrington HealthCare System opened its new Remillard Family Emergency Department in Webster.

  • Is your website making room for mobile technology?

    Christina Davis

    Despite all the rapid technological change, there's one thing we can count on: the increasing importance of mobile devices in the way people consume media and interact with the world in general.

  • Shortchanged in ACA, dentists hope exchanges can boost coverage

    Emily Micucci

    The Affordable Care Act impacts health care providers of all types, but dentists were largely disappointed by its shortcomings in expanding dental coverage.

  • Advice
    Advice

    10 Things I Know About ... Hiring college interns

    Nikki Diorio

    The director of a college office that focuses on internships and career development offers advice for businesses on helping a college student gain valuable experience while in school.

  • Focus on Buying and Selling a Business
    Focus on Buying and Selling a Business

    The essential middleman: Why a broker can be a smart move when you want to buy or sell a business

    Livia Gershon Special To The Worcester Business Journal

    For the past two years, Hudson-based ResTech Plastic Molding has been on a buying spree, gobbling up three fellow manufacturers in Connecticut and Pennsylvania and looking at more potential deals down the line.

  • Accolades & Honors

    Natick Visiting Nurse Association was named a Top Agency of the 2014 HomeCare Elite, a program that recognizes home health agencies in the United States.

  • Focus on Buying and Selling a Business
    Focus on Buying and Selling a Business

    Know How: Before the transaction, seller must start with business valuation

    Terence J. Shepherd Special To The Worcester Business Journal

    As baby-boomer business owners approach their 60s, their thoughts often turn from an “achievement” mindset to one of “quality of life” values and concerns.

  • How do you balance online security with customers' web access needs?

    Sam Bonacci

    In the last year, data from 96 million credit cards were exposed during breaches at Home Depot and Target. The online security of the U.S. State Department, the White House and other government agencies are constantly being probed.

  • Page One Story
    Page One Story

    Cashing in on culture to boost business

    Sam Bonacci

    More governments and nonprofit groups across Central Massachusetts are focusing on culture and the arts as money-making cornerstones capable of anchoring entire neighborhoods while making cities more livable.

  • Incorporations
    Incorporations

    Incorporations

    Here's a list of Central Massachusetts businesses that filed incorporation papers with the Massachusetts Secretary of State's Office from Sept. 1-15, 2014.

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Today's Poll

Has your company increased its use of AI in the last year?
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Poll Description

Although used in technology like Google searches for decades, the buzz around the use of artificial intelligence in business has soared in the last year, largely due to advances from the company OpenAI and its AI system ChatGPT. Companies have explored using AI to automate more processes, although fears around the technology's use are rampant, too. For example, part of the Hollywood writers' strike centered around using AI to develop scripts, and part of the new union contract included guarantees against certain uses of AI in moviemaking and television.